Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.
BOB BARRUnfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.
BOB BARRThe main international problem facing America is our lack of – our loss of influence in the world and our lack of an ability to define what U.S. interests really are.
BOB BARRNobody is denying we should investigate and do what we can to prevent gun crime in our cities and towns. But, we should not scapegoat the American gun owner for complicated, cultural problems we are just beginning to understand.
BOB BARRThis magnificent invention has done this without succumbing to government control.
BOB BARRI’m pro-life but I believe that the federal government ought to stay out of it. That’s a decision that the people of each state ought to make for themselves.
BOB BARRLet us not rush into a vast expansion of government power in a misguided attempt to protect freedom. In doing so, we will inevitably erode the very freedom we seek to protect.
BOB BARRThe backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.
BOB BARRIt matters not whether its proponents have a ‘D’ or an ‘R’ after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.
BOB BARRGoing to war against Iran – whether one calls such a move ‘surgical’ or ‘total’ – would be an extremely serious undertaking; with worldwide economic, military, diplomatic and human ramifications in both the short- and the long-term.
BOB BARRFirearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.
BOB BARRI supported the Iraq resolution, but that was not an approval of war in Iraq and certainly was not approval for an occupation of Iraq.
BOB BARRI believe great damage is being done to our Constitution, and I see no remedy at all, no likelihood of that changing, if we rely on the two parties to field our candidates for national office.
BOB BARRWidespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.
BOB BARRAccepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.
BOB BARRThe Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.
BOB BARRAt virtually any given time outside of one’s own home, an American citizen can reasonably assume his movements and actions are being monitored by something, by somebody, somewhere.
BOB BARR